If "a superstore will only be allowed on the Brighton Station site if it can be shown no alternative site exists for it on London Road" (Opinion, September 21), developers will have to ensure they cannot find an alternative site on London Road in order to increase the value of the station site by building it there.
If the planning brief had stated that only a site on London Road would be acceptable to the planning authority in the first place, this would not be the case.
A supermarket and car park on the station site will be designed for one-stop shopping and will therefore adversely affect traders in London Road and the Open Market.
With in the region of 200 short-term parking spaces, the supermarket will generate between 600 and 800 trips per day. As this area is already congested, these extra trips cannot but add to the present congestion.
-Selma Montford, Hon secretary, Brighton Society
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